I visited the Evangeline Beach at the north end of the Grand Pre peninsula twice during our trip to Nova Scotia, once with my fiance and once with his sister. The first time I visited, the tide was out, revealing a vast expanse of the sandy ocean floor. We timed our second trip so that we would arrive about two hours before high tide, hoping that the incoming tide would push the shorebirds toward the beach. We found hundreds, possibly thousands, of shorebirds, mostly Least, Semipalmated and White-rumped Sandpipers, accompanied by two Ruddy Turnstones and a single Semipalmated Plover. We also saw several birds of prey while driving through the peninsula, including three Peregrine Falcons, an adult Bald Eagle, and two immature Bald Eagles.